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The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester Hardbound edition HarperCollins, 1998 ISBN: 0-06-017596-6 240 indexable pages 444 headings, subheadings 923 locators, 11 cross references For more about this book, see HarperCollins |
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The Professor and the Madman is Winchester's bestseller. Its contents is summarized by its sub-title: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It focuses on the relationship between Sir James Murray, the primary editor of the dictionary, and William Chester Minor, an American murderer who contributed nearly ten thousand definitions while locked up in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. In the index, titles of works are italicized; excerpts from definitions in dictionaries are in small caps, and; in subheadings, "Minor" refers to William Chester Minor, and "Murray" to Sir James Murray. |
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A Académie Française, 87 Accademia della Crusca, 87, 98 acknowledgment, in Oxford English Dictionary, 231 Aldenham, Lord (Henry Hucks Gibbs), 165 Amours, F. J., 165 Ancient Order of Foresters, 224 Arte of Rhetorique (Wilson), 82 Asquith, Herbert, 198 asylum, in Dictionary of the English Language, 114 Asylum for the Criminally Insane, Broadmoor. See Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum [on this page] Athenaeum (magazine), 110, 129, 153, 179 B Bacon, Francis, 168 Bailey, Nathaniel, Universal Etymological Dictionary, 88, 102 Battle of the Wilderness (May, 1864), 53–58 Bedlam, in Oxford English Dictionary, 115–116 Bell, Alexander Melville, 35 Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane (London), 18 Blount, Thomas, Glossographia, 86 Bradley, Henry, 172–173 Brayn, Dr. appointment to Broadmoor, 182 on releasing Minor from Broadmoor, 195 treatment of Minor at Broadmoor, 184, 185, 186, 197, 198, 200, 202 Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. See Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum [on this page] Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum (now Broadmoor Special Hospital), 21, 113, 117, 118–121 legendary meeting of Minor and Murray at, 168–174 Brown, Francis, 174, 186 Brown, J. E. A., 165 Bruce, Henry Austin, 117 |
Burchfield, Robert, 98 Burton, Henry, 4, 11 C Castanheda, Fernão Lopez de, Firste Booke, 142 catchword, in Oxford English Dictionary, 131 catchwords, 134, 135, 136–137 Cawdrey, Robert, Table Alphabeticall ... of hard unusual English Words, 84, 102 Ceylon, 43–44 Chartered Bank of India, 35, 110 Chesterfield, 4th Earl of (Philip Dormer Stanhope), 93–94, 97 Church, Hayden, 171, 172, 173, 187 Churchill, Winston, 199, 200 Civil War (U.S.) Battle of the Wilderness (May, 1864), 53–58 desertion during, 58–60, 63 Irishmen in, 56–58 suffering in, 52, 55–56 Cockeram, Henry, English Dictionarie, 86, 102 coda, in Oxford English Dictionary, 227 Coleridge, Herbert as editor of Oxford English Dictionary, 108–109, 135 Unregistered Words Committee, 107 Complete Woman (du Boscq), 138 Cooper, Thomas, Thesaurus, 82 Country Farme (Markham), 155 crime armed criminals in Victorian England, 3 English views of American, 14 criminal madness, in England, 118 D Dadd, Richard, 186 Daily Telegraph, 173 Dainty, Edmund, 116 d'Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa, 34 Davidian, Dr. (Government Hospital for the Insane), 209 |
Delegates of the Oxford University Press, 40, 111, 112, 147, 196 dementia praecox, 209, 210, 211 Dennis, William, 18 dénoument, in Oxford English Dictionary, 163 diagnosis, in Oxford English Dictionary, 205 Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, 38 dictionaries definitions, desirable qualities, 151 early European language, 83, 87, 105 English language, evolution of, 80–99, 102–107 Dictionarius, 83 Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines (Ure), 148 Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson), 89–90 asylum in, 114 completion, time to, 92, 94, 103 criticisms of, 97–98 development method, 94–95 editions, 96–97 elephant in, 90, 95, 96 entries, number of, 96 Johnson's motivation, 90 lexicographer in, 95 Oxford English Dictionary compared to, 102–103 oats in, 95 patron in, 97 praise of, 97–98 published, 96 quotations in, 95, 105–106 scope of English language covered by, 95 sponsors of, 93, 94 take in, 95–96 Discourses (Reynolds), 154 Doctor Blank, 172 Dryden, John, quoted in Oxford English Dictionary, 28–29, 30, 31 du Boscq, Jacques, Complete Woman, 138, 159 Duchess of Malfi (Webster), 84 |
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